I think this unit may help the lower level rebel players, who have transport capacity issues. Almost the same damage with the buff and same multiplier as the Jugg for rebels. I can't speak for the Empire players. The low health can be worked around with high health troops as buffers. Most of these players do not have infiltrators, so they don't have an efficient shield buster. Still amazes me that players struggle to win at levels 4-7. It should be so easy at those levels.

luke50 wrote:I think this unit may help the lower level rebel players, who have transport capacity issues. Almost the same damage with the buff and same multiplier as the Jugg for rebels. I can't speak for the Empire players. The low health can be worked around with high health troops as buffers. Most of these players do not have infiltrators, so they don't have an efficient shield buster. Still amazes me that players struggle to win at levels 4-7. It should be so easy at those levels.

LS

Jugg wasn’t effective until shield edge targeting and wall crushing abilities added.ATAP, even with improved dps and health, may still not be sufficient to take on bases with armory and GR troops. Well, if they can have the same shield targeting and wall crushing abilities as jugg, then perhaps. Until then ...

perhaps as a defence option in SC? expensive UC on them, but with the damage buff perhaps could take down Jets? slow so will take longer to BnK, though easily Air'd. does mean rebs dropping a couple of E50's to make room though

While I don't see this new unit unlock worth the grind, I applaud the devs for TRYING to make an obsolete unit more relevant. If they tweak these units in the future, maybe they'll be relevant at all levels. It'd be great to have MULTIPLE loadouts to successfully attack with instead of most people just using jet/jump swarms. MULTIPLE loadouts means a strategy game again instead of the current "patience" game that we currently have.

I was playing around with these during the last conflict and at level 8 they die in less than 2 seconds to a single, equal level rocket turret, before taking out the shield. Maybe with the skin it will actually be able to take out one shield before it dies. But is one shield worth UC10 AND 9 armoury slots? Oh, and traps still kill it easily...

Assuming that units in the game were (and are, for war) fairly balanced before/without the armoury, then the game would return to that relative balance when all units have skins for about the same bonuses. The 5-10% base health increase is not equal to the 160% health skin bonus that many other units are getting so they will not be as useful as those units.

geoman48 wrote:While I don't see this new unit unlock worth the grind, I applaud the devs for TRYING to make an obsolete unit more relevant. If they tweak these units in the future, maybe they'll be relevant at all levels. It'd be great to have MULTIPLE loadouts to successfully attack with instead of most people just using jet/jump swarms. MULTIPLE loadouts means a strategy game again instead of the current "patience" game that we currently have.

I also appreciate the attention and effort it shows, but I don't like having more frags in the pool which lowers our odds of getting the frags we actually want.

geoman48 wrote:While I don't see this new unit unlock worth the grind, I applaud the devs for TRYING to make an obsolete unit more relevant. If they tweak these units in the future, maybe they'll be relevant at all levels. It'd be great to have MULTIPLE loadouts to successfully attack with instead of most people just using jet/jump swarms. MULTIPLE loadouts means a strategy game again instead of the current "patience" game that we currently have.

I also appreciate the attention and effort it shows, but I don't like having more frags in the pool which lowers our odds of getting the frags we actually want.

Hope they put frags for these "half buff" units (also for the AT-ST and T2B skins) in the Durasteel Crates for HDs and Dailies soon when they realize no one is worried about playing conflicts for them. At least, players that have all structures and turrets frags maxed out, will have chances of level up these units faster.

All my structures are maxed out for my both Prestige bases, I only got frags for turrets in Durasteel now. And AT-ST and T2B skins are good, and made me back to use the T2B when looting with my Prestige base. But the "Duck" probably will keep sucking as it dies with only one rocket shoot if doesn't get a real buff for health.

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